Members of the House on Tuesday reiterated their call for the Obama administration to answer their questions about the September attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead, and pressed for former CIA Director David Petraeus to testify on the matter.

"Congress still doesn't know why our people in Libya were left vulnerable," Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) said on the House floor. "We still don't know why the U.S. military was not sent to their defense.

"It is of the highest importance that General Petraeus, who led the CIA at the time, be brought before Congress to testify as to what really happened in Benghazi, whether there was a security lapse or whether the administration temporized on security and stood down to mollify violent, disparate groups which have nothing in common with our nation," he said.

I am sorry if this was already posted. I did a search, but I got the old Forbidden page. So I decided to post anyway and take the heat if I did the forbidden sin by posting an already posted article. :)

“Congress still doesn’t know why our people in Libya were left vulnerable,” Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) said on the House floor.
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Congress doesn’t know lots of things, probably because they are a bunch of feckless, self-serving and innefectual do nothings interested only in self promotion. As an institution, it is not taken seriously. As the old saying goes if progress is going forward, what is congress?

I get it now. Obozo administration knows about Petraeus/Broadwell for months at least. Obozo holds it over P’s head while he gives (false)testimony to Congress about Bengazi being about the stupid video. Later, P goes to Libya, finds out all of the truth, is troubled by it, tells Obozo that he can’t keep on protecting Obozo. Obozo “assasinates” P “Chicago style”.

I wonder how many Socialist (Democrat) members of the Benghazi committees will keep bringing up the sex scandal as a diversion from 0bama’s betrayal of four Americans in Benghazi? Will Elijah E. Cummings be on these committees?

Petraeus knew from the start all that was happening in Libya and Syria from the beginning at the instruction of Obozo and Valorie Jarrett. Petraeus was the good troop when he lied to Congress about the cause of the violence. That ended when Obozo gave the “stand down” order which denied support for the embattled operatives in Bengazi.

I think the stand down order caused Petraeus to refuse further support to hide Obozo. So he was blackmailed to be silent and simply step down.

All this “mistress” and “affairs” stuff allegedly involving two generals and two mistresses is just a diversion from -
BENGHAZI, LIBYA.

Republicans in Congress will soon again be demonized if they push it and accused of “attacking” Hussein in order to try to “overturn” an election and the “will of the people”. If they get a special prosecutor, it will be Ken Starr and Bill Clinton all over again. - The scapegoats are already online for taking the fall, and it ain’t gonna be The Chicago Thug or the Arkansas Grifters.

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posted on 11/13/2012 5:13:03 PM PST
by Twinkie
(Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.)

While Petraeus needs to be called to testify (even if he must be Subpoenaed) but so does Her Thighness, Hitlery as well as FBI Director Mueller.

Without their testimony, we will never get to the bottom of this matter.

While the House is at it (as the Senate will be a joke and designed to protect Dear Leader's fascist butt) they should also call AFRICORP Gen Hamm so we could learn what he was ordered to do in response or was not.

Nixon was always anti-Communist.
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I wholeheartedly agree with that but the reason I am ‘crowning’ him the RINO forerunner as he probably enhanced the growth of the ‘Great Society’ but not quite as bad as LBJ -
And he eventually over came the ‘burden’ of being a Quaker, though the closest many people came to Quakers was a box of breakfast cereal, so he was alright with them...(not an insult, just a stab at jocularity)...

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posted on 11/13/2012 5:34:48 PM PST
by xrmusn
(6/98 "Hope in one hand and $hiite in the other and see which fills up first".)

Agree. The more I read about the Petraeus “scandal”, which seems to be expanding without end and including more military people (who, btw, Obama despises), the more I believe it was all made up to discredit P’s potential/possible testimony. And interesting how all of this came to light AFTER the election. I do believe there’s more truth to a Benghazi coverup than this Petraeus/biographer scandal. Just too convenient, IMO. It stinks.

The irony is the GOP elite of the day did not like Nixon. He was not refined and not of the right breeding. One of Nixon's great faults was that after he was elected he listened to the economic “experts” of the day, who (more irony) were Keynesians.

Sorry, I am not completely correct in saying he enhanced the ‘Great Society’, upon further checking I see where he did a lot to dismantle the giveaways LBJ started BUT he was probably the ‘father of Affirmative Action’ and he had other ‘problems’....
Ford, with his VN amnesty and Nixon pardon probably did more to hurt ‘us’ than anyone and we were probably ‘lucky’ that Carter came along and completely botched things up.
The birth of RINO’s probably can be attributed to the “Reagan Democrat” happening in the 80’s, then the onslaught started with a run of absolutley ‘poor’ Presidents...
Bush, Clinton (2), Bush (2), Obama (2) and I think ‘they’ will really have to outdo themselves to top this bunch..also have to throw the losers into this mix...... Dole, Gore, Kerry, McCain and Romney.
IF ‘THEY’ are out there, out spectacular Parties will find them....
Pitiful....

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posted on 11/13/2012 7:03:23 PM PST
by xrmusn
(6/98 "Hope in one hand and $hiite in the other and see which fills up first".)

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